

Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice.

When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies.

The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. Mulan meets The Song of Achilles an accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China.
